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| Total country population | 9,400,000 |
Core Jewish population
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7,200 |
| Jews per total 1,000 in population | 0.77 |
| Population with a Jewish parent | 17,000 |
|
Enlarged Jewish population
|
25,000 |
|
Law of Return Jewish population
|
33,000 |
Press articles about Belarus
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Belarus Jewish community holds memorial for Kirk Douglas, its most famous descendant
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:10 February 2020
Date:10 February 2020
Belarus president says Jews got the world to ‘bow before them’ after the Holocaust
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:6 July 2021
Date:6 July 2021
Belarus: Comprehensive survey of Jewish cemeteries announced
Publication:Jewish Heritage Europe
Date:26 June 2017
Date:26 June 2017
Belarusians honoured by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during the Second World War
Publication:European Jewish Congress
Date:29 November 2017
Date:29 November 2017
Creating local programming, Russian-speaking Jews bolster unique Jewish identity
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:6 January 2021
Date:6 January 2021
Death of Jewish dissident during home raid by Belarus security forces prompts protests and arrests
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:6 October 2021
Date:6 October 2021
Development of Bobruisk synagogue ruins under way as anchor of open-air Jewish cultural heritage site
Publication:Jewish Heritage Europe
Date:4 June 2018
Date:4 June 2018
Historic 17th century Slonim synagogue up for auction; starting price — €50,000
Publication:Jewish Heritage Europe
Date:8 June 2020
Date:8 June 2020
Historic synagogue in Slonim goes up for auction December 29 — for the 4th time since June
Publication:Jewish Heritage Europe
Date:20 December 2020
Date:20 December 2020
Holocaust rescuer Chinue Sugihara’s son helps honor his deeds in Belarus
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:3 May 2019
Date:3 May 2019
In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic.
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:21 May 2019
Date:21 May 2019
In Belarus, Marc Chagall’s synagogue is for sale to anyone willing to restore it
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:29 January 2021
Date:29 January 2021
In Belarus, young Jews among those picked off street and jailed amid police crackdown on protesters
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:13 August 2020
Date:13 August 2020
In Belarus, ‘Europe’s last dictatorship,’ Jews fear police but not anti-Semitism
Publication:The Times of Israel
Date:19 August 2020
Date:19 August 2020
In Eastern Europe, historic synagogues are sold for the price of a used car
Publication:Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Date:5 March 2021
Date:5 March 2021
Jewish cemetery in Derechin restored thanks to descendants; commemorative plaque to be mounted in May
Publication:Jewish Heritage Europe
Date:8 April 2019
Date:8 April 2019